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• Most Asian markets rise in Monday trading
In a volatile session Friday in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 128, or 1.49 percent, to 8,451.49, gyrating within a 1,000 point range. The average had its worst week on record in both point and percentage terms. Elsewhere in Asia ...
• Plan pushed for government to buy bank stocks
Jittery investors awaited the reopening of stock markets — the Dow Jones industrial average just completed its worst week ever, plummeting more than 18 percent — and hoped for bold, coordinated international steps to address the crisis. At a Paris ...
• European nations to guarantee bank debt
That has helped fuel the crisis that has pulled down some of Wall Street’s most storied names and is threatening the core of the U.S. and European economies. After the Dow Jones industrial average ended its worst week in history, plummeting more ...
• High anxiety still rules on Wall Street
At Friday's closing bell, both the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 were down 18.2 percent for the week, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was down 15.3 percent. Since the beginning of October alone, all three major indexes have skidded ...
• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
Bush huddled with economic chiefs from the G-7 — Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada — and officials from the IMF and World Bank, and said top industrial nations grasped the gravity of the crisis and would work together to solve it ...